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The economic crisis in Greece has affected almost all sectors of the economy and the great majority of households. Its … opening in the main commercial centre of Athens, at a time that it is under huge economic strain. As a starting point in this … and determinants of retail closures during the economic crisis, revisiting relevant theories drawn from the wider …
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The city of Brussels has a unique position in Europe. It is not only the capital city of the European Union, it also the capital of federal state of Belgium, of its two different language communities and of the government of the Brussels region. Independent of this, the city itself is composed...
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Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...
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The goal of this paper is to specify the link between urban sprawl and labor market. To this fashion, I build a urban labor model with housing consumption, with a social planer problem and where spatial allocation of workers is directed by a Nash equilibrium In the context of a Potential game....
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This study employs an analytic urban economics approach, assuming that Toyohashi City takes a linear shape and there are two districts where the vulnerabilities to the earthquake in the two districts are different. That is, Toyohashi City is divided into two districts, one is safe for the...
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The role of population density for economic activity was neglected in most part of economic theory. This paper is a … review and extension of the previous works of the author in this field. So far, densities did not become common economic … variables in economic analysis, and two countries with different densities of population and infrastructure but similar in …
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, 2007, 2009) where economic production function accounted explicitly for topological properties of geographical space … sensitive to such economic parameters as the price of final good, energy price index, land rent and time discount. Land … can loose competition to farmers who are rational only in economic sense and overexploit their land slots. References 1 …
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scalar measures currently in use. Finally, these mea- sures are shown to support certain predictions of new economic …
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The distance and time of home-workplace commuter journeys of more than 700,000 workers in the Moscow region have been determined by GIS techniques using data from the year 2001. This has allowed visualization of commuting patterns in the Moscow region in the framework of a geospatial approach...
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fundamental economic forces such as rising incomes, population growth and low commuting costs. In Switzerland, all these factors … sprawl. Most of the urban economic studies on the drivers of urban sprawl focus on the periphery of great metropolitan areas …
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